pelley: good evening. we start tonight with the wars in afghanistan and iraq. this has been a day of u.s. casualties in iraq and it is also a day that president obama met with his advisors about the future of u.s. involvement in afghanistan. he s facing a tough decision on whether to pick up the pace of u.s. withdrawals or stay the course. we ll go first to the battlefield. cbs news correspondent mandy clark is with the 101st airborne in paktika province, afghanistan it s right on the border and this is what the fight is like for u.s. troops trying to stop the enemy from crossing into afghanistan from their hideouts in pakistan. reporter: fox company headed out at dawn on saturday. their mission: to cut the enemy off at the source. along the border with pakistan, the razor s edge of the war. the pilots struggled to land the helicopters on the rugged mountain top. soldiers rushed out and took up defensive positions. they re moving by themselves. reporter: in these hars
good morning, everybody. thanks for joining us. i m betty nguyen. anthony weiner says he will not resign but promises to cooperate with an ethics investigation. he confessed to inappropriate on-line exchanges with six women. he admitted sending one lewd photo to one woman and then lying about it. i regret not being honest about this. it was a big mistake i was embarrassed, i was humiliated. i m still to this moment. i was trying to protect my wife, to protect myself from shame. it was a mistake. i really regret it. it was part of a plan of destructive things i did that i accept responsibility for it. if you re looking for a deep explanation for it, i simply don t have one except that i m sorry. joel brown is in washington with more on this. good morning, joel. how likely is this ethics investigation? well, betty, the house has rules about the conduct of its members and we know that the ethics committee ruled several times in the past against members who violated those
captioning funded by cbs good morning,e everybody. thanks for joining us. i m betty nguyen. anthony weiner says he will not resign but promises to cooperate with an ethics investigation. he confessed to inappropriate on-line exchanges with six women. he admitted sending one lewd photo to one woman and then lying about it. i regret not being honest about this. it was a big mistake i was embarrassed, i was humiliated. i m still to this moment. i was trying to protect my wife, to protect myself from shame. it was a mistake. i really regret it. it was part of a plan of destructive things i did that i accept responsibility for it. if you re looking for a deep explanation for it, i simply don t have one except that i m sorry. joel brown is in washington with more on this. good morning, joel. how likely is this ethics investigation? well, petty, the house has rules about the conduct of its members and we know that the ethics committee ruled several times in the past agains
sending smoke billowing across the u.s. while in the midwest, a river threatens towns and a levee gives way, early this tuesday morning, june 7th, 20116789 way, this morning, june 7, 2011.this morning, june 7, captioning funded by cbs good tuesday morning to you. nice to have you with us. i m erica hill. i m chris wragge. there is breaking news out of libya, nato airplanes carrying a daring very unusual daytime raid in the capital this morning. we re going to bring you full details on the raids coming up in a moment. our team is on the ground there. we begin with the story that a lot of people have been talking about. anthony wiener s confession. this story that began with a lot of jokes finally brought the new york congressman to tears as he admitted tweeting a lewd photo of himself to a young woman. now, he faces an ethics investigation, because that photo was just one drop in a sea of very personal messages. nancy cordes is on capitol hill with the latest for us
visibility limited. this is the insurgents backyard. there s a large number of insurgents use this as bed-down areas so we suspect that they re using this as training camps as well. reporter: first lieutenant sean mccune is leader of second platoon. he and his men were moving fast and using cover to try and sneak up on the insurgents. they succeeded. three armed men possibly enemy spotters were identified on the next ridge. the response was swift and fierce. two 500-pound bombs dropped right on the border with pakistan. three dead bodies were later recovered along with heavy weapons and communication equipment. get your guys down, go along. pelley: fox company pushed on hoping to flush the enemy out. company commander captain christopher tanner, a west point graduate from alabama, was waiting for his men to gather on the ridge when rockets started raining in. there s another one. reporter: he called in counterfire. they got an acquisition off that one. rep